BLACK METAL

[DrRichard]

This, Bleau Blanc Satan, about the early French BM scene found its way into my feed. It's cool to see a documentary that's not about Norway and all the usual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-jglTaTZ4&ab_channel=Documentals

The interviews of the Mutiilation guy and of the Osculum Infame guy made me somehow sad.

[brian o'blivion]

Been listening to Perverted Ceremony after finding the Sabbat Of Behezaël and Demo 1 cassettes at a local store last week.

[Yrjö-Koskinen]

This, Bleau Blanc Satan, about the early French BM scene found its way into my feed. It's cool to see a documentary that's not about Norway and all the usual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-jglTaTZ4&ab_channel=Documentals

Great stuff! Thanks.

[TS]

Been playing the Selvhat - Avskjed LP the last few days. It's mostly demo stuff and some unreleased material from this sadly deceased mastermind. Pretty sad release overall, coming with a pamphlet looking very much like what you'd get at a protestant funeral. The music is great, nice to have the familiar tracks from "Den Svarte Tid" on LP, and the stuff I haven't heard, while not reaching the sublime heights of the material on "Gjennom Mørket Famlende, is still great.

[AdamLehrerImageMaker]

Nocturnal Triumph S/T https://amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-triumph-s-t

Denouncement Pyre 'Forever Burning' https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-burning

[Kaaoskultti]

One band I don't see being mentioned too much is Svartsyn. One of the most solid discographies ou there, plus unparalled riffs and compositional skills. I find it rather peculiar how this band manages to have a relatively lo-fi sound without any of the characteristic buzzing of a lot of Black Metal. Here is Tehom, from Timeless Reign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBYfSk2Pd8

[FreakAnimalFinland]

My personal favorite from recent BM listening is UNFYROS cd!
While I like slow/midpaced metal, often in underground it tends to come with a lot of baggage and lame elements. Unfyros manages to escape all those. Actually making catchy, memorable songs, with good riffs, good playing skills, but none of showmanship there. Just that all musicians have a little extra there. Drums, bass lines, guitar playing, all have good little hooks and songs keep having drive forward. Less than 40 mins full length. Perhaps for industrial/ritual music crowd, band being related to Aural Hypnox label might be of interests. But another proof that "metal guys can't make experimental sound" or the other way round doesn't really matter when guys are really into what they do. These guys have long history in dark atmospheric metal and you can sense they aren't newbies fooling around with couple chords.  Should get more CD's to distro next week... packaging also top notch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7O5HidWqog

[TS]

Demoncy - Within The Sylvan Realms of Frost.

Underrated USBM. Frosty indeed. Great, chilly sound here, and just the enough repetition to bring you into that  spiraling feeling that BM does so well.

[antitodo]

Nocturnal Triumph S/T https://amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-triumph-s-t

Album of the year for me, there is too much mediocrity released these days I almost lost interest in the whole genre, but this one stands out.

[TS]

I had almost given up on Terratur, but damn: Theriomorph brings the good stuff with Diabolical Bloodswords. It's a continuation of his earlier project Cornigr, and it retains that pummeling energy, combining it with a dash of early Funeral Mist. The production here is absolutely piercing.

[FallOfNature]

Cornigr was one of the most underrated things he released, very interested to hear this

[TS]

Cornigr was one of the most underrated things he released, very interested to hear this

In my ears, this is a much better development of the sound from Relics of Inner War than the Funereal Harvest EP, which didn't have that same energy, somehow.

[Skuggsidan]

Mütiilation.

[kettu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K6WQnnC7Wo

Singing about dragons and stuff, Ruttokosmos is Now available from lords of misinformation SPOTIFY

[FreakAnimalFinland]

New Finnish Black Metal, APOGEION. It is hard to really put this into exact category. You got moments you could refer to Archgoat, Beherit, Ride For Revenge, even Inquisition, I heard people name drop also Cultes Des Ghoules. But when you try to figure out what these together would be, it is most likely missing the cosmic sounds, almost futuristic synths, what also are not what such description usually means. Lots of good riffs, kind of barbaric way of playing drums and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XpJgiKrxnI